The Carbon Thread

[Mr. Tea]

Briton described as "the UK's most effective environmental activist" - who has no criminal record and meets the requirements for the US visa waiver programme - has been sent home after landing at JFK for a speaking tour and being grilled by the Feds for six hours.

Fucksake.

[sufi]

http://www.theecologist.org/News/new..._peak_oil.html
or
'What, is peak oil dead? -- Then show me the body! (of statistical
evidence)', Paul Mobbs, Mobbs' Environmental Investigations, May 2015

[griftert]

So - all the fossil fuels are coming out of the ground aren't they? Is there any other course of events because I can't see it.

[HMGovt]

So - all the fossil fuels are coming out of the ground aren't they? Is there any other course of events because I can't see it.

Yes, solar is approaching parity with fossol fuels and will soon become cheaper.
Driverless vehicles = electric vehicles
Thorium cycle nuclear energy.
"Fusion in 30 years"
Pandemic or war kill 65% of the world's population, reducing demand.

It'll be fine.

[griftert]

Yes, solar is approaching parity with fossol fuels and will soon become cheaper.
Driverless vehicles = electric vehicles
Thorium cycle nuclear energy.
"Fusion in 30 years"
Pandemic or war kill 65% of the world's population, reducing demand.

It'll be fine.

I can't tell the tone of this post.

[luka]

It's standard hmg technological optimism and social pessimism. I think it's basically earnest despite glib tone

[griftert]

'Technology will save the day' is the standard response to these concerns. Isn't the obvious conclusion to take from all this is that technology was a huge part of the problem all along? And that we need less technology, not more?

[Mr. Tea]

We need better, and less, technology, is my hunch.

[sufi]

A wonderful.passionate post, a tale of hope and daring,
https://labofii.wordpress.com
it feels sometimes about as unreal to me as narnia, and that just makes it all the more awesome

[Mr. Tea]

Third runway for Heathrow approved: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37760187

[sufi]

Responsible for 40-50% of damage apparently (presumably the rest is a long tail all the way down to you & I)
https://link.springer.com/article/10...7-1978-0#Sec10 & http://www.yesmagazine.org/planet/90...or-it-20170913

Yes! They should Pay

Summary:

First, many of them knew what damage they were causing. According to the report, more than half of the carbon emissions produced since the industrial revolution were emitted since 1986, when the dangers of global warming were well-known. But these companies buried their own research findings and doubled down on fossil fuel extraction.

Second, many of these companies spend vast sums promoting climate denial and undermining support for renewable energy, electric vehicles, and other responses to the climate crisis. Industry lobbyists and think tanks, flush with money from fossil fuel companies and their executives, distort our democracy, making government accountable to their interests rather than to We the People.

Third, by doing these things, these companies prevented action during the brief window of time between climate science becoming clear and it becoming too late to avert disaster.

The shit list (a few states in there too):

Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
Alpha Natural Resources, USA
Anadarko, USA
Anglo American, UK
Apache, USA
Arch Coal Company, USA
Bahrain Petroleum Corporation
BG Group (British Gas) UK
BHP Billiton, Australia
BP, UK
British Coal Corporation, UK
Canadian Natural Resources, Canada
Cemex, Mexico
Chevron, USA
China, Peoples Rep. (coal & cement only)
CNOOC (China National Offshore Oil Co.)
Coal India, India
ConocoPhillips, USA
CONSOL Energy, USA
Cyprus Amax, USA
Czech Republic
Czechoslovakia
Devon Energy, USA
Ecopetrol, Colombia
Egyptian General Petroleum, Egypt
EnCana, Canada
ENI, Italy
ExxonMobil, USA
FSU (Former Soviet Union)
Gazprom, Russia
HeidelbergCement, Germany
Hess, USA
Holcim, Switzerland
Husky, Canada
Iraq National Oil Company, Iraq
Italcementi
Kazakhstan
Kiewit Mining Group, USA
Kuwait Petroleum Corp., Kuwait
Lafarge, France
Libya National Oil Corp., Libya
Lukoil, Russia
Luminant / TXU, USA
Marathon, USA
Massey Energy Corporation, US
Murphy Oil, USA
Murray Coal Corporation, USA
National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC), Iran
Nexen, Canada
Nigerian National Petroleum, Nigeria
North American Coal, US
North Korea
Occidental, USA
Oil and Gas Corp India, India
OMV Group, Austria
Peabody Energy
Pertamina, Indonesia
PetroChina, China
Petroleo Brasileiro (Petrobras), Brazil
Petroleos de Venezuela, Venezuela
Petroleos Mexicanos (PEMEX), Mexico
Petroleum Development Oman, Oman
Petronas, Malaysia
Poland
Polish Oil & Gas Co.
Qatar Petroleum, Qatar
Repsol, Spain
Rio Tinto, UK
Rosneft, Russian Federation
Royal Dutch Shell, The Netherlands
Ruhrkohle AG (RAG), Germany
Russian Federation (not including FSU)
RWE, Germany
Sasol, South Africa
Saudi Aramco, Saudi Arabia
Singareni Collieries Company, India
Sinopec, China
Sonangol, Angola
Sonatrach, Algeria
Statoil, Norway
Suncor, Canada
Syrian Petroleum, Syria
Taiheiyo, Japan
Talisman, Canada
Total, France
UK Coal, UK
Ukraine
Westmoreland Mining, USA
Xstrata, Switzerland
Yukos, Russia